Vancouver's Second LIVE 2007: man michinaga

Monday, December 3, 2007

Projection screen videos from Day Two...

Note: These videos were recorded onto MiniDV Cam Digital Video Cassettes from one angle only directly from the screen.

The audio on all these videos is from the streamed audio from Second Life that has been amplified into the Real Life venue of the Western Front. Therefore, both virtual and "real" audience members can be heard on all of these videos.
The content of these videos is basically raw footage that was barely edited.

Special Thanks to Tanya Skuce for helping with the uploading, editing and digitization of this raw footage.

Day Two was uploaded first for two reasons:

1) Because the Mini DV tapes for Day Two were properly labeled.

2) Once Day One has also been posted, the order of the videos will appear more chronological when scrolling down the blog...

And now, here are the video-documents from Day Two of the Second LIVE component of the LIVE Biennial of Peformance Art in Vancouver (Western Front)...

***Posted in the order of chronological appearance***

Day Two - Saturday, October 20, 2007...

2:00-2:30 PM

TRAN SPIRE (DOUG JARVIS) -
WoW! Tran Spire visits World of Warcraft...

2:30-3:00 PM

MAN MICHINAGA (PATRICK LICHTY) -
RGB (Events, 3 color score)...

3:00-3:45 PM

SECOND FRONT -
Theatre of the Subliminal Front...

Guest curated by Rubaiyat Shatner (James Morgan), Ars Virtua.

3:45-4:00 PM

NYKO NAKAMURA -
14 Extra Open Slot Minutes (Courtesy of Nyko Nakamura & LIVE) While Eating a Sandwich in Real Life...

4:15-5:00 PM

LADYJUSTICE BEAUMONT (MARGARET DRAGU) & EBA HAX (TAGNY DUFF) -
PERFORMOLOGY REMIX #2...

Monday, October 29, 2007

LIVE videos submitted by audience members...

If you cannot see this video, click here. This is Fau Ferdinand's solo performance sequel titled "All nOObs are Sailors 2" and was performed on Friday, October 19th, 2007. This video-clip was recorded and edited by Dizzy Banjo.

Dizzy Banjo captured the enegertic essence of Fau Ferdinand's performance on Odyssey Island.

If you cannot see this embedded video, click here. This is a video-clip of Man Michinaga's solo performance called "RGB" which was performed on Saturday, October 20th, 2007. This video-clip was recorded by AliseIborg Zhaoying.

Man Michinaga (a.k.a. Patrick Lichty) did a fantastic Fluxus-esque performance where he used primary colours, Polychromed flames and light cycles straight out of TRON :-)

Find more videos like this on Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance
If you cannot see this embdded video, click here. Second Front's "Theatre of the Subliminal". Video-clip recorded by Maxxo Klaar (Maxxopic).

On Saturday, October 20th, 2007, Maxxo was able to record some video during the intermission period when Second Front blew up the property and had to log back into Second Life to continue their performance. Maxxo did a great job turning this moment into a Film Noir experience.

These 3 videos are the only ones submitted to the LIVE Biennale so far but they are not likely the last.... If you have videos and/or pictures from any of the Second LIVE 2007 performances, please leave a comment on this blog posting with your contact information. There are still 6 Mini DV tapes to digitize from this 2-day festival and tons of photos coming in from the various avatar participants and audience members so please stay tuned in the coming days and weeks for more documentation and archives...

Curatorial Statement by Wirxli Flimflam (Jeremy Owen Turner)...

Since 1999, Vancouver 's LIVE Biennial of Performance Art has been at the forefront of biennales dedicated to the practice of performance art. The theme for this year's LIVE Performance Art is "public" and in order to continue LIVE's innovative legacy, I have chosen to bring the institutionalized practice of gallery-related and legitimized performance art into the public (yet occasionally corporate) and much-hyped mainstream virtual world, Second Life.

Running parallel with the PERFORMA Performance Art Biennale in New York , 2007 is the year where virtual performance has officially entered the realm of "real" institutional legitimacy and popular appeal. Timing is of the essence since it is predicted by media moguls that by the year 2011, most online inhabitants around the world would have at least flirted with virtual worlds as part of their everyday routine.

This ambitious curatorial project was made in collaboration with an in-world gallery called Ars Virtua and an institutional broadcast venue, The Western Front.

It is hoped that this mini virtual-performance fest is a catalyst for future avatar performance art events to come.

- Jeremy Owen Turner – LIVE 2007 Director of Avatar Development, Vancouver , B.C., Canada .

xox Voyager's (Skawennati Tricia Fragnito's) Curatorial Statement...

It is extremely important that Aboriginal people show up in The Future. Images of Indians, silent and unnamed, can readily be found in history books. But, judging by our lack of presence in pictures of things to come, we apparently don't have a role to play in a technologically advanced society such as our own. I fear that if we cannot see ourselves in The Future, we will not be there. Conversely, however, if we can visualize our participation in this multi-mediatized world, there is a good chance that we will become active agents in it and that we will help to shape new (and newer) medias as they arise.

Nothing can represent The Future better than a real-time, interactive, 3-D space where fantastic people populate improbable architecture as they fly, teleport, and telepathically communicate their thoughts and dreams. Where do Native people fit into such a space? And, more importantly, where do we want to fit in that space?Parson's performance will touch upon several themes that have been central to contemporary Aboriginal art in recent years. These include stereotypes (and the ignorance and stagnation that these imply); colonization; appropriation; the environment; the Other, the body and the gaze. However, what sets this work apart is the effective use of the medium-Second Life-to convey her particular take on these subjects. For example, a real-life version of You Want a Piece of Me? would have required Bea to bake and serve a five-foot, three-inch cake decorated to look like herself, and still it would not fully express the idea that she was being consumed. In Second Life, she is able to actually be the cake, and to slowly disappear as her party guests consume her.At the same time, Parson's performance attempts to answer some of the questions posed above. Simply by virtue of performing in a virtual space, she is claiming that we have a place there.

The piece also comments on the idea of "there". As the purported environmental custodians of their various continents, Aboriginal people have often been psychologically tied to the land they inhabit (in both our own minds and in the minds of non-Aboriginals). In a digital place dispossessed of land (if we can rightly say that Second Life is dispossessed of land) perhaps the Indian can shed the burden of stewardship and focus on some other things that interest her.

Participatory Dissent Description

Here is the official Second LIVE website.

Participatory Dissent: Debates in Performance (October 18-22, 2007, Vancouver), an encounter between traditional forms of performance art (endurance/duration) and new forms of social practice and intervention. Produced in conjunction with the LIVE Biennial of Performance Art, the program looks to the overlaps between practices, modes of thinking, and opinions about contemporary performance. Viewers are invited to participate, enjoy and intervene in four days of individual performance art, social intervention, and discussion surrounding performance art practices that forge new relationships between artists, site and community. Facilitating the creation of new work by artists from across Europe and North America, Participatory Dissent: Debates in Performance will consist of individual and collaborative works (situated at the Western Front, online, and in various outdoor locations in Vancouver), online discussions, a round-table discussion event at the Western Front and a panel discussion at Emily Carr Institute. Works will address public intervention, alternative economies, the limits of the body, and cultures of fear in the post 9/11 era. This series of events is organised by Western Front Performance Art. Guest Curator Natalie Loveless.

Vancouver's Second LIVE 2007

Monday, December 3, 2007

Projection screen videos from Day Two...

Monday, October 29, 2007

LIVE videos submitted by audience members...

LIVE 05 BIennale of Performance Art (2007)

Blog Archive

Wirxli Flimflam

Curatorial Statement by Wirxli Flimflam (Jeremy Owen Turner)...

xox Voyager

xox Voyager's (Skawennati Tricia Fragnito's) Curatorial Statement...

Rubaiyat Shatner

Rubaiyat Shatner's (James Morgan's) Curatorial Statement...

Participatory Dissent Description